Getting ready to repaint my scrambler plastic. Any warnings, precautionary steps I should take, types of paint, etc....?

 

I advise that you do a forum search on painting plastic. I have just gotten finished with my 3rd failed attempt to paint the plastic on my daughters PowerWheels Jeep [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif[/img].

I takes alot of prep knowledge and work to get it right and get it to stick! Otherwise, you just end up with a huge mess to deal with. Trust me, the cleanup is much harder than researching and doing it right the 1st time.

So far, I have found that you need to spend a great deal of time preping the plastic, sanding ect. Then I'd do primer for flexable plastic or a paint adheasion agent. Both of these are put out by common name brand spray paints like plastikote. Their site has a little good info.

But, as far as the paint itself, I'm not sure [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/img]. Krylon paint worked well for me as far as flexability. I just didn't prepair a surface that was easy for it to grab onto. However, I wouldn't exactly recommend you use it. I'm not 100% it would stay anyways. If you find a top coat that works be sure and let me know!

I would guess that an automotive paint and working materials would be the absolute best. They paint all sorts of flemsy plastic bumpers on cars nowadays. I believe the have the primers, ect., that I mentioned before and that they add "flex" agents to the paint itself. At any rate, I hope this helps and good luck